Maybe Im wrong, but I think AI become even more stupid than it was in 4.11. Individually, they are OK, but in a formation, they are incredibly dumb.
Usually when my flight meets an enemy formation, and I command my wingmen to attack, they just fly straight and not doing anything, despite that they are quite good at spotting the enemy. After 1 or 2 minutes, 2-3 of my planes begin attacking, but the rest are just flying pointlessly, or flying in huge circles.
For example, in the most recent mission in the soviet fighter campaign, I commanded 8 La-5FNs, and met a german flight of 6 FW190s. Even though we managed to down all enemy planes (4 myself), we lost 4 La-5s in the process, all of them just flew pointlessly instead of attacking.
Similar happened in japanese campaigns too.
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